NHL Lockout is kids’ stuff to Bruins' Claude Julien

Bruins coach Claude Julien will keep busy during the NHL lockout. Julien has agreed to coach a youth hockey team later this month to raise money for charity. The team will be chosen by a raffle.

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Bruins coach Claude Julien will keep busy during the NHL lockout.

Julien has agreed to coach a youth hockey team later this month to raise money for charity. The team will be chosen by a raffle.

The Boston Bruins Foundation (nhlalumniraffles.org/raffles) is holding the raffle. Tickets are $5 each (minimum purchase is two), and can be purchased until 1 p.m. Oct. 22, with the winner drawn that day at 5 p.m.

Julien will be behind the bench for a game Oct. 28 at the Haverhill Valley Forum.

Many Bruins players have decided to play abroad while waiting for a new collective bargaining agreement.

Money from the raffle will support the Boston Bruins Foundation and Massachusetts Hockey, the sport’s governing body in the state.

Five hours of talks in two sessions between the NHL and the players’ association have done little to move the sides closer to a deal in the nearly one-month lockout.

The NHL’s top two executives — commissioner Gary Bettman and deputy commissioner Bill Daly — met with the NHLPA’s main negotiators — executive director Donald Fehr and special counsel Steve Fehr — for nearly an hour in the morning to assess where the sides were on Day 25 of the NHL lockout, but there was no concrete discussions on the troublesome core economic issues preventing a deal.

A four-hour session that stretched into evening centered on player health and safety issues along with other miscellaneous legal topics.

The sides will meet again today — which should have been NHL opening day — but there are still no plans to delve into how the sides will split up hockey-related revenue that was in excess of $3 billion last season.

These were the first negotiations since the sides held an unannounced meeting in Toronto on Friday to discuss where they were and how to move the process forward.

The NHL has canceled the first two weeks of the regular season, wiping out 82 games from today through Oct. 24.

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